Neowin News Feed for: Promise

Two IBM Discoveries Add Promise for Nano-Computing

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:07:33 +0000

Scientists at IBM said on Thursday that they had moved closer to developing ultra-tiny storage devices(imagine 30,000 full-length movies on an iPod) by learning how to steer single atoms in a way that could create... Read more...

Spinning Particles Promise Unlimited Computing Power

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:05:54 +0000

When engineers flick the switch to turn on the world's fastest supercomputer later this year it will be capable of chewing its way through 1,000 trillion calculations every second. But this speedy number cruncher could... Read more...

Snowflakes promise faster chips

Thu, 03 May 2007 13:59:32 +0000

IBM has developed a new process called airgap that copies nature's creation of seashells and snowflakes - it enables trillions of microscopic vacuum holes to be placed between the copper wire in chips to act... Read more...

Hackers Promise Month of MySpace Bugs

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:48:05 +0000

Two hackers, known as Mondo Armando and MÃ¼staschio, don't want to disclose their real names but promise to begin disclosing security vulnerabilities in MySpace, every day in April. "The purpose of the exercise is not... Read more...

Super-Slim Lasers Promise to Boost Optical Disc Capacity

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:33:57 +0000

Researchers at Japan's Kyoto University have recently announced a breakthrough method for shaping laser beams that could result in optical disc capacities up to ten times higher than what's current available from state-of-the-art HD DVD... Read more...

2006 full of broadband promise

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 18:53:22 +0000

In the Chinese calendar the symbol changes every year. 2006 will be the year of the dog but in the world of technology, broadband has remained top dog for the last five years. The... Read more...

Promise of fuel cells turns out to be Fool's Gold?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 09:55:15 +0000

AS the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) approaches, there arefive computer technologies goodies I am really hoping and praying tosee work – as in, built in working pre-production devices that willturned into real, on-my-Big-Box shelf... Read more...

4GB Fibre-Channel Products Promise Speed at SNW

Wed, 13 Apr 2005 20:43:44 +0000

Two companies introduced products for the 4GB Fibre Channel environment Wednesday at Storage Networking World. ATTO Technology Inc. of Amherst, N.H., announced the ATTO Fibre Bridge 2400C/R/D, a 4GB Fibre Channel-to-SCSI bridge designed to integrate... Read more...

Promise introduces new hot-swap Serial ATA Drive enclosure

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 08:36:49 +0000

Promise Technology, the originator and leading supplier of ATA RAID solutions, announced last week the availability of the SuperSwap 1100, a hot-swap drive enclosure for Serial ATA (SATA)/150 drives. The SuperSwap 1100 enclosure transforms a... Read more...

New cell-phone Java holds promise

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:23:53 +0000

Allies of Sun Microsystems have completed a second version of Java software for cell phones that they hope will fill some of the gaps left by the first, but many expect challenges moving to the... Read more...

Promise Fasttrak 100 TX2 IDE RAID Drivers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 08 Apr 2002 18:29:58 +0000

Promise has posted updated BIOS & Drivers for the Promise Fasttrak 100 TX2 IDE RAID controller. When the updated driver & BIOS are being used, they allow for 48bit LBA Support. On... Read more...

IPv6: The Promise, The Problems, The Protocol

Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:16:28 +0000

For some time now there has been a great deal of talk -- and even some action -- about the next-generation version of TCP/IP, named IPv6. It's been a long time coming, and for good... Read more...

New G4 roadmaps promise Apple harvest

Tue, 12 Feb 2002 06:32:26 +0000

While Apple watchers look for first sightings of the G5 chip, Motorola is taking the G4 into fertile territory. By this time next year three as yet unannounced versions of the G4 will dramatically boost... Read more...

Microsoft's .NET Security Promise Challenged

Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:36:19 +0000

Analysts say that .NET is several years behind Java in providing the kinds of good security practices that Sun has already integrated into its model. In an apparent reversal of its poor... Read more...

Littlewhitedog reviews Promise and Maxtor

Steven Parker — Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:13:45 +0000

Littlewhitedog has just completed a very comprehensive review of Promise's Ultra133 TX2 controller and Maxtor's D740X-6L hard drive. While these components may bring the ATA133 drive standard to your system, are they really needed?... Read more...